Donna Kalil has plunged into canals in the dead of night, straddled two-hundred-pound serpents, and been bitten more times than she can count—all in the name of killing a thing she loves and playing a game she can’t win.
Fantastic piece in Garden & Gun on Donna Kalil, a professional, full-time Python hunter. Don't like to read? Here's a short video. But you should read the article. How could you not with a pull-quote like the one above.
Via Metafilter
Who doesn't want to watch Black Rhinos goring and eating pumpkins?
This site has been around forever and I've always found it rather neat: a searchable database of all registered dog names in NYC.
Trying to choose a name for your new friend? See how common it is in NYC, which is probably a good way of gauging how common it is in general.
You'll notice that there are no Shakedowns. There wasn't when I named her 12 years ago, either.
I've often joked that there's a Heron that watches over me. In LA, Spain, Vanuatu, The Dominican, and here in Toronto. I'd swear it's the same bird.
And then there's Yaren, a Stork that lives half the year in Africa and half the year in this livestreamed nest in Turkey.
Yaren not only returns to Turkey every March, she returns to the same friend, a Turkish fisherman named Adem Yılmaz. They've spent each Spring and Summer together since 2010.
More on Yaren's Wikipedia page.
You may believe that rhino poaching is a one-sided, cut-and-dried affair, but there's nuance, and you can get it in this excellent podcast: The Invisible Hand.
Georgina Savage returns to South Africa to document her family’s fight in a poaching war, but as she gets more immersed in the lives of those involved, she must confront the colonial past of her country and its implications on a conflict close to home.
